6 sentences with 'comparison'
Example sentences and phrases with the word comparison and other words derived from it.
• « In comparison to the infantry-centred Roman legions, the Roman auxiliaries tended to vary their weapons - auxiliaries could be slingers and archers as well as foot soldiers and cavalry. »
• « Even the poor lived better in Constantinople than the relatively well-off of Western Europe, much of whom were barbarians by comparison. »
• « The palace grounds cover some 2,000 acres, or just over 3 square miles (by comparison, Central Park in New York City is a mere 843 acres in size). »
• « Perhaps most importantly, nobles everywhere paid few taxes, especially in comparison to the taxes, duties and rents that plagued the peasantry. »
• « Meanwhile, the European nobility had been bred for centuries to rule and had developed both cultural traditions and systems of education and training to produce leaders. It was taken for granted that they were not all very good at it, but according to Burke there was simply no comparison between the noble class and the mob class - to let the latter rule was to invite disaster. »
• « The first months of the war revealed that they were indeed strong, in a sense, being far more lethal than anything created before. Human bodies were pitifully weak in comparison, and as the death toll mounted, the human (and financial) costs associated with modern warfare shattered the image of national strength that politicians and generals continued to cling to. »